nonviolent resistance

1. Refusal to obey a law considered unjust; civil disobedience .

Notes

Mahatma Gandhi urged and practiced nonviolent resistance during the efforts to win independence for India from Britain in the early twentieth century.

African-Americans in the civil rights movement often practiced nonviolent resistance in the South in the 1960s — for example, by sitting-in at segregated lunch counters to provoke arrest and draw attention to their cause. ( See segregation and sit-ins .)

Example Sentences

Not all successful cases of nonviolent resistance have earned distinctive names.

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Disobedience of the rules is a mainstay of nonviolent resistance.

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Here he puts forward his radical notions about nonviolent resistance to evil.

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These are not the Palestinians being held without charges or as political prisoners for nonviolent resistance.

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We spoke of the anti-occupation tool of massive nonviolent resistance.

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